לחיות בין שמים וארץ
Torah, personal growth and everyday life meet in the questions we carry into our homes, our work and ourselves.
לחיות בין שמים וארץ
Character and emotions
If It Is Hard, Is God Telling You to Leave?
More pain does not always mean more holiness. Sometimes devotion is staying, and sometimes wisdom is knowing when to get up.
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Why Was the Greatest Joy Centered on Water?
The greatest joy of Sukkot was built around water. Perhaps the most precious things in life are precisely those we have learned not to notice.
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When the Blessing Stops Feeling Like a Blessing
Sometimes we are surrounded by old prayers that were already answered, but habit has made them look like ordinary life.
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What Must Be Yours, and What Must Never Be Only Yours?
You need a world of your own. But it must not close so tightly that there is no room in it for anyone else.
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Seventy for the World, and One for You
After the great feast comes a small request: do not do more. Just stay. Sometimes that is the deepest form of love.
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Stay Different, and Stay Together
Unity is not making everyone alike. It is staying connected even when the person opposite remains different from me.
Continue reading ←Work, money and success
Precisely the One Who Feels at Home Needs to Step Outside
Torah sends us out of the house precisely when we feel settled, not to destroy security but to ask who is holding whom.
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Precisely When You Have Everything, Leave the House
Precisely when the storehouses are full Torah says: step outside, not to reject blessing but to remember who is really in charge.
Continue reading ←Faith, trust and meaning
Could It Be That King David Never Sat in a Sukkah?
We can do the right thing for years without truly living it. Sometimes joy returns when we choose again what had become routine.
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When the Blessing Arrives at the Wrong Time
Not every good thing is good at every moment. Sometimes the most important word inside the blessing is “in its time.”
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Why Does God Ask Us to Sit Specifically in the Shade?
Faith is not seeing everything. Sometimes it is knowing in whose shade you sit while the picture is still incomplete.
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How Can We Say Thank You While Something Is Still Missing?
You can be grateful and still hurt. Mature faith knows how to hold “thank You” and “please save me” in the same hand.
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Do Not Wait for Life to Begin
“Later” moves with us. Life is not a waiting room for the stage in which everything finally becomes orderly.
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Height Really Does Matter
It is not enough to be tall. The question is what you did with your height, and who was able to rise because of you.
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Yesterday We Were Angels; Today Let Us Be Human
The test of Yom Kippur is not whether we can be angels for one day, but whether the soul came home with us.
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Why Do We Bless Over the Lulav and Not the Etrog?
It is not enough to be high. The question is what you did with your height, and who rose because of you.
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Some Things Are Not Enough to Know
The test of knowledge is not whether we can repeat it. The test is whether it can be seen in our lives.
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